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Hot Corner: Texas Tech's Tommy Tuberville sees the big picture

New Texas Tech coach Tommy Tuberville doesn't expect the league he's in to last for long. (The Associated Press / Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, John A. Bowersmith)

Tommy Tuberville said this week the Big 12, or whatever it is called now, won't be around for long because too many teams have diverse interests. That's good enough for me. The new Texas Tech coach may have shaken the league's old guard with his comments, but he is a big-picture guy, and he has a sense of these things.

It was Tuberville who wanted the SEC to expand -- before expansion was cool -- when he said years ago that the league should go after the TV markets like Miami. He's a good ideas man.

If the Big Ten was once the Big Two -- Ohio State and Michigan -- and the Little Eight -- everybody else -- then the Big 12 is surely nothing more than the Big One, and that one isn't Texas Tech. It's Texas, and everybody who isn't knows it.

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